Workshops

Typoday Workshops 2019
2nd March 2019
at IDC School of Design/VMCC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Typoday workshops are based on this year’s theme of ‘Experimental Typography’ and are designed to offer exposure on various aspects of typography. This will provide a platform for students from varied backgrounds to interact with experts in typography.

The participation in these workshops are only for registered students.

Schedule:

8.00am – 9.30am      —    Registration and Tea
9.30am – 9.45am      —    Lighting of Diya
9.45am – 10.00am    —    Welcome and Introduction to the Facilitators
10.00am – 1.00pm    —    Morning Sessions
1.00pm- 2.30pm         —    Lunch at VMCC (3rd Floor - do wear your badges)
2.30pm to 5.30pm     —    Afternoon Sessions
5.30pm to 6.00pm     —    Workshop Exhibits + Tea

The following workshops will be conducted on 2nd March 2019

Workshop to be conducted by the following experts:

1. Mr. Achyut R. Palav.......More
Calligrapher, Mumbai
Title: 'The Magic of Fusion - A Calligraphy Workshop'.........Book Track1
Venue: IDC Auditorium Foyer

2. Prof. Kumkum Nadig.......More
Faculty Member, Head, Visual Communication Design, Srishti School of Design, Bangalore
Title: 'Planar Typography'......Book Track2
Venue: IDC BDes Senior Class Room

3. Mr. Sarang Kulkarni and Ms. Yesha Goshar.......More
Ek Type, Mumbai, India
Title:
'Letterbox. India - Exploring letterforms in Indian scripts.'......Book Track3
Venue: IDC Auditorium

4. Mr. Muthu Nedumaran.......More
Typographer, Malaysia
Title: 'Experiments in Indic typeface design using variations'......Book Track4
Venue: VMCC,Room No-11

5. Prof. G V Sreekumar.......More
Faculty Member, Head, IDC IIT Bombay
Title: 'Creating Logotypes Inspired from Nature'......Book Track5
Venue: IDC Conference Room No-1

6. Prof. Ranjana Dani and Prof. Mansi Keni.......More
Faculty Members, MIT Institute of Design, Pune & Rachana Sansad, Mumbai
Title: 'Letter Art: TexformSpeak'......Book Track6
Venue: VMCC,Room No-12

7. Prof. Girish Dalvi and Ms. Maithili Shingre.......More
Faculty Member, IDC IIT Bombay, Mumbai and Ek Type foundry
Title: 'Reviving Old Lettering/Calligraphic/Epigraphic Styles as Fonts'......Book Track7
Venue: VMCC,Room No-13

8. Mr. Aurobind Patel.......More
Typographer, Mumbai
Title: 'Making Type accessible through Experimentation'......Book Track8
Venue: VMCC,Room No-14

9. Mr. Eiichi Kono.......More
Typographer , UK
Title: 'Exploring the conflict between legibility and limited space'......Book Track9
Venue: VMCC,Room No-15

10. Dr. Santosh Kshirsagar .......More
PhD, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
Faculty Members and Dean of Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai
Title: 'Calligraphic Approach to Letter-form Exploration'......Book Track10
Venue: IDC VC Junior Class Room

11. Prof. Tarun Deep Girdher .......More
Faculty Member of NID, Ahmedabad
Title: 'What's your Type?'......Book Track11
Venue: IDC IxD Junior Class Room

12. Mr. Chirag Gander.......More
Co-founder, The Minimalist Mumbai
Title: 'Typo Twists'......Book Track12
Venue: VMCC,Room No-21

13. Prof. Antoine Abi Aad.......More
Assistant Professor at the Lebanese University, Lebanon
Title: 'Lego: deconstruct to construct'......Book Track13
Venue: VMCC,Room No-22

14. Mr. Kalpesh Gosavi.......More
Faculty, Sophia Polytechnic, Art & Design Dept, Mumbai
Title: 'Vernacular Identity'......Book Track14
Venue: IDC PD Junior Class Room

15. Prof. Mandar Rane.......More
Facuty, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay
Title: 'Indianess in Identity Design'......Book Track15
Venue: VMCC,Room No-23

16. Prof. Sumanthri Samarawickrama .......More
Facuty, Department of Integrated Design, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Title: 'Play with Display'......Book Track16
Venue: IDC BDes Junior Class Room